Hi Hubert, On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:09:38AM -0600, Hubert Chan wrote:
> There will be a new GNUstep library release coming up, which will break > binary compatibility with the GNUstep libraries currently in Debian. > (The versions currently in Debian are one release old, and the current > GNUstep release already breaks binary compatibility with what is > currently in Debian.) Since the new release adds many new features, we > would like to get it into etch if possible. Since the general freeze > for etch is only a couple of months away, that means that if we want to > make it happen, we'll have to make a very, very smooth library > transition. > So here's what needs to happen: > If you maintain a package that uses the GNUstep libraries, you will need > to change your build-depends. Instead of build-depending on > libgnustep-gui0.10-dev, you should build-depend on libgnustep-gui-dev, > and instead of libgnustep-base1.11-dev, you should build-depend on > libgnustep-base-dev. These will be the names of the new -dev packages > for the new GNUstep libraries, which will enable us to do smoother > transitions later on by allowing us to do binNMUs. (And ftpmaster seems > to prefer those names.) The current -dev packages already provide those > names, so it should even be safe to upload packages with the new > build-depends, if you were already planning on doing an upload soon. So > there's no reason to delay making the change. You can do it right away, > and should do it as soon as possible. This should be the only change > that you should need to make to your packages. While the ftp team is going to prefer -dev package names that don't include ABI versions in them, the underlying *reason* for that preference is that changing -dev package names unnecessarily generates busy work -- not just for the ftp team, but also for the release team and for maintainers of packages that build-depend on those -dev packages. So while changing the -dev package names to libgnustep-gui-dev and libgnustep-base-dev sounds like a good idea to me, I think it would also be a very good idea to make these packages Provide: libgnustep-gui0.10-dev and libgnustep-base1.11-dev during this transition just as the previous packages Provide:d the new names. This would immediately enable us to do binNMUs for any gnustep packages whose maintainers don't have time to change around their build-dependencies before the freeze while still letting you get your lib transition in for etch. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
